What color of Wizards would you like to see?

Post by **Bruce N H** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 11:54 pm

Well, there's Saruman the White, Gandalf the Gray, Radagast the Brown, and Alatar and Pallando the Blue.

Need I say more.

Oh, it would also be cool to have a blue hat with moon and stars like Mickey in the Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Bruce

Draygen · Post by **Draygen** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:26 pm

White Wizard of Air
Red Wizard of Fire
Light Blue Wizard of Water
Brown/Tan Wizard of Earth
That will do =)

nwinch · Post by **nwinch** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:07 am

all of them

muhahaha... ahem espescially sand red with a flame pattern

Post by **Athos** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:18 pm

White, with a tan beard.

Tan with a brown beard.

Grey with red beard.

Red with a black beard.

Steve

Spongey · Post by **Spongey** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:01 pm

Bruce N H wrote:Well, there's Saruman the White, Gandalf the Gray, Radagast the Brown, and Alatar and Pallando the Blue.

Need I say more.

Oh, it would also be cool to have a blue hat with moon and stars like Mickey in the Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Bruce

Kind of off topic, but where did you find out the names of the Blue Istari? Unfinished Tales identifies them only as blue, and passing off into the east.

On topic, I like the idea of having a Gandalf style wizard, with grey robes and a tattered hat. Majisto and Dumbledore looked to polished and affluent, in my opinion.

conductorjoe · Post by **conductorjoe** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:03 pm

I think a red one would be cool. You never really see red wizards in fantasy stuff(except the stereotypical red and black enemies), so it would be cool to see how they made that work.

Shadowviking · Post by **Shadowviking** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:10 am

Bruce N H wrote:Gandalf the Gray

C'mon, Bruce! You of all people should know better! From the page with Gandalf's introduction in the Fellowship of the Ring...

On page 48 of the 50th anniversary edition, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote:At the end of the second week in September a cart came in through Bywater from the direction of Brandyywine bridge in broad daylight. An old man was driving it alone. He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf. He had a long white beard and bushy eyebrows that stuck out the brim of his hat. Small Hobbit-children ran after the cart all through Hobbiton and right up the hill. It had a cargo of fireworks, as they rightly guessed.

So there.

Frankly, I'd rather not have more pointy hats. Wizards, sure. But those things are virtually useless to me.

smcginnis · Post by **smcginnis** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:22 am

Definitely red wizards and black wizards. Although we sort of have these already, it would be nice to get a more readily available red wizard's hat and new 2x2x2 slope print for both of them.

Tan, white, and light grey would all be wonderful as well. Just think of the pieces!

Also, maybe some new beard molds, similar to RedBean's? They could be used for chieftains, dwarves, and warriors as well as wizards. That may be too expensive though. New beard colors, at least, would be a must, even if we didn't get new shapes. Brown, black, and tan at the very least.

Shadowviking wrote:
On page 48 of the 50th anniversary edition, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote:. An old man was driving it alone. He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf.

I know! I always think it's kinda funny when I see a review of a Gandalf with a blue hat, and the review says 'you got his hat color wrong'. Although, I'm not quite sure Bruce didn't know that.

~smcginnis

Shadowviking · Post by **Shadowviking** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:18 am

smcginnis wrote:
Shadowviking wrote:
On page 48 of the 50th anniversary edition, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote:. An old man was driving it alone. He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf.
I know! I always think it's kinda funny when I see a review of a Gandalf with a blue hat, and the review says 'you got his hat color wrong'. Although, I'm not quite sure Bruce didn't know that.

~smcginnis

Yeah, he probably did... but I've been wanting to do that for a long time!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:35 am

Kind of off topic, but where did you find out the names of the Blue Istari? Unfinished Tales identifies them only as blue, and passing off into the east.

The names of the Blue Wizards are not truly official. They appeared in the old ICE MERP (Middle-Earth RP) books, and were kind of adopted unofficially. In the core material, Tolkien never names the Blue Wizards, as you say.

Maedhros · Post by **Maedhros** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:28 am

Well... I think a transparent wizard would be kind of cool, some elemental mage or what-not. Maybe a whole bunch of them; transparent red for fire, blue for water etc...

And NO pointed hats!

Post by **Bruce N H** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:33 pm

Hey,

On the Blue Wizards, the names Alatar and Pallando were "official", in that they were written by Tolkien, but they never reached publication during his life, so you may call that "unofficial". I don't have my books with me, but it was either out of Letters of JRRT or Unfinished Tales. Wikipedia indicates it was from UT, but I'll dig out the books when I can to confirm this. Hmm, Wikipedia also says that alternate names, Morinehtar and Rómestámo, were given in Peoples of Middle Earth. I have to admit that I never read that -- I stalled out about half way through the whole History of Middle Earth 12 volume set and never even bought the last couple of them.

You may have been thinking of the Witch-King, whom Tolkien never named, but was named in ICE materials.

Bruce

JPinoy · Post by **JPinoy** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:04 am

I would like a wizard that did not have a wizards hat. Perhaps something different than the usual European Folklore design, with those beards and pointed hats.